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TripIt Consolidates Your Travel Plans

TripIt is a new online travel organizer that looks to consolidate the various elements of planning a trip into one itinerary.

Currently in private beta, TripIt combines the basic information about your trip such as dates and location with additional data such as weather, driving directions, and reservations. For example, in planning my trip to Philadelphia this weekend, TripIt tells me it is going to be sunny, allows me to add driving directions from my hotel to the airport, and lets me search for events going on in town via listings on Eventful.

The site also has a handy tool for booking flights, hotels, and rental cars by first allowing you to select your dates and then selecting the site you would like to search (such as Orbitz or Travelocity), which opens in a new tab. Once you book accommodations, you can them import them directly into TripIt by forwarding your confirmation emails to them, at which point TripIt will automatically take care of issues like directions and weather. The site also features basic social elements such as being able to maintain a friend’s list and view your buddies travel plans.

TripIt combines and automates many things that most of us are used to doing separately when making travel plans, making it a potentially time-saving tool for the frequent traveler. The company was created by former Hotwire executives Gregg Brockway and Scott Hintz.

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